Religious Verses on Death

• Genesis 3:19   “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• Job 14:14  “If a man dies, shall he live again?  All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.”
• Psalm 23:4  “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
• Psalm 39:4  “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!”
• ​Psalm 48:14  “For this God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end.”
• Psalm 116:15  “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
• Psalm 146:4  “When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.”
• Proverbs 14:32  “When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge.”
• Ecclesiastes 3:1-4  “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
• Isaiah 25:8  “He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.”
• Isaiah 53:4-5  “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
• Hosea 13:14  “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.  Where, O death, are your plagues?  Where, O grave, is your destruction?”
• ​John 10:27-29  “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” (Jesus speaking)
• John 11:23-26  "And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die."
• Romans 6:23  “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
• Romans 14:8  “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.   So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:20-23  “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.  For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.  But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:54-57  “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’  ‘O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?’  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:6-8  “So we are always of good courage.  We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.  Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”
• 2 Corinthians 7:10  “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”
• 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11  “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.  Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”
• Hebrews 2:14-15  “Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.”
• Revelations 1:18  “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!  And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”
• Revelations 2:10  “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
• Revelation 14:13  “And I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’  ‘Blessed indeed,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labours, for their deeds follow them!’”'​
• Ecclesiastes 12:7  "And the dust returns to the Earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."